| Latif Asad Abdullah, The Tombs |
| Appeared in: Extracts from Pelican Bay |
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| Sherman Alexie, Capital Punishment |
| Appeared in: Indiana Review |
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| Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House |
| Appeared in: North American Review |
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| Thomas Avena, Cancer Garden |
| Appeared in: The Occident |
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| Marie Annharte Baker, Porkskin Panorama |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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| Sidney Burris, Strong's Winter |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Rosemary Catacalos, David Talamantez on the Last Day of Second Grade |
| Appeared in: The Texas Observer |
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| Marilyn Chin, Cauldron |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Wanda Coleman, American Sonnet (35) |
| Appeared in: River City |
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| Jacqueline Dash, Me Again |
| Appeared in: In Time |
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| Ingrid de Kok, Transfer |
| Appeared in: TriQuarterly |
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| William Dickey, The Arrival of the Titanic |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Nancy Eimers, A History of Navigation |
| Appeared in: Poetry Northwest |
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| Nancy Eimers, A Night Without Stars |
| Appeared in: Alaska Quarterly Review |
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| Martin Espada, Sleeping on the Bus |
| Appeared in: The Progressive |
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| Martin Espada, Rednecks |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Beth Ann Fennelly, Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding |
| Appeared in: Farmer's Market |
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| Robert C. Fuentes, In This Place |
| Appeared in: Extracts from Pelican Bay |
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| Rámon Garcia, Salmo: Para El |
| Appeared in: The Americas Review |
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| Suzanne Gardinier, Two Girls |
| Appeared in: The American Voice |
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| Frank Gaspar, Kapital |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Reginald Gibbons, White Beach |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| C. S. Giscombe, All (Facts, Stories, Chance) |
| Appeared in: River Styx |
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| Kimiko Hahn, Possession: A Zuihitsu |
| Appeared in: Another Chicago Magazine |
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| Gail Hanlon, Plainsong |
| Appeared in: Poetry Flash |
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| Henry Hart, The Prisoner of Camau |
| Appeared in: Beloit Poetry Journal |
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| William Heyen, The Steadying |
| Appeared in: TriQuarterly |
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| Jonathan Johnson, Renewal |
| Appeared in: Cream City Review |
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| Jane Kenyon, Reading Aloud to My Father |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| August Kleinzahler, Two Canadian Landscapes |
| Appeared in: Private |
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| Yusef Komunyakaa, Nude Study |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Stanley Kunitz, Touch Me |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Natasha Le Bel, Boxing the Female |
| Appeared in: Hanging Loose |
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| Natasha Le Bel, Foot Fire Burn Dance |
| Appeared in: Hanging Loose |
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| Carolyn Lei-Lanilau, Kolohe or Communication |
| Appeared in: Mānoa |
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| Valerie Martínez, It Is Not |
| Appeared in: Prairie Schooner |
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| Davis McCombs, The River and Under the River |
| Appeared in: No Roses Review |
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| Sandra McPherson, Edge Effect |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| James Merrill, b o d y |
| Appeared in: The New York Times |
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| W. S. Merwin, Lament for the Makers |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Jane Miller, Far Away |
| Appeared in: Colorado Review |
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| Susan Mitchell, Girl Tearing Up Her Face |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Pat Mora, Mangos y limones |
| Appeared in: Prairie Schooner |
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| Alice Notley, One of the Longest Times |
| Appeared in: Fourteen Hills |
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| Naomi Shihab Nye, The Small Vases from Hebron |
| Appeared in: Many Mountains Moving |
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| Alicia Ostriker, The Eighth and Thirteenth |
| Appeared in: Poetry Flash |
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| Raymond Patterson, Harlem Suite |
| Appeared in: Drumvoices Revue |
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| Carl Phillips, As From a Quiver of Arrows |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Wing Ping, Song of Calling Souls |
| Appeared in: Sulfur |
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| Sterling Plumpp, Poet and When the Spirit Spray-Paints the Sky |
| Appeared in: TriQuarterly |
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| Katherine Alice Power, Sestina for Jaime |
| Appeared in: In Time |
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| Reynolds Price, Twenty-One Years |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Alberto Alvaro Ríos, Domingo Limón |
| Appeared in: Prairie Schooner |
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| Pattiann Rogers, Abundance and Satisfaction |
| Appeared in: Iowa Review |
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| Quentin Rowan, Prometheus at Coney Island |
| Appeared in: Hanging Loose |
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| David Shapiro, For the Evening Land |
| Appeared in: Lingo |
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| Angela Shaw, Crepuscule |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Reginald Shepherd, Skin Trade |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Enid Shomer, Passive Resistance |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Gary Soto, Fair Trade |
| Appeared in: Prairie Schooner |
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| Jean Starr, Flight |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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| Deborah Stein, heat |
| Appeared in: Hanging Loose |
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| Roberta Tejada, "Honeycomb perfection of this form before me..." |
| Appeared in: Sulfur |
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| Chase Twichell, Aisle of Dogs |
| Appeared in: Iowa Review |
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| Luis Alberto Urrea, Ghost Sickness |
| Appeared in: Many Mountains Moving |
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| Jean Valentine, Tell Me, What Is the Soul |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Alma Luz Villanueva, Crazy Courage |
| Appeared in: Prairie Schooner |
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| Karen Volkman, The Case |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Diane Wakoski, The Butcher's Apron |
| Appeared in: Many Mountains Moving |
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| Ron Welburn, Yellow Wolf Spirit |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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| Susan Wheeler, Run on a Warehouse |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Paul Wilis, Meeting Like This |
| Appeared in: Weber Studies |
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| Anne Winters, The Mill-Race |
| Appeared in: TriQuarterly |
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| C. Dale Young, Vespers |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Ray A. Young Bear, Our Bird Aegis |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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